Bob Adler:  

Short version of what has gone on since Van Buren years: Went to Queens College and graduated 1975 after having a blast while being on the swim and water-polo teams. Taught SCUBA diving and ran dive trips up and down the east coast and Carribean, then went into the life insurance business and have been a financial advisor ever since. Also have been an ocean lifeguard since 1974 at Jones Beach, and now at Robert Moses State Park (since 2009), working mostly weekends after two summers of full time. I think I've have done ok for a lifeguard and SCUBA bum. My wonderful wife Margaret, who I was married to for 28 great years, passed away April 2007 after a five year battle of stage 4 breast cancer. I have three terrific kids, all JB lifeguards too: oldest son is a Naval Academy (Annapolis) '06 grad, got a Masters from the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA in May '07, then served as a Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) on a guided missle destroyer, he was a Navy SEAL with Team 2 & 10 out of Little Creek, VA, completed second deployment to Afghanistan, after 9 months returned home Sept. 2012, got married Dec. 2012 to a Navy neo-natal care nurse, who graduated May 2012 from Georgetown with an MBA, her family all Navy too. They bought a house in Virginia Beach (Oct. 2013) and have fixed it up with new kitchen and one of the bathrooms, taking down a wall, etc. with lots of the tear down and wood working by my son. Son had Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) from numerous contacts with the enemy while deployed both times. He has recovered completely and was back operational in December 2013. Great therapy for TBI at a special facility and program called NICOE...look it up, (also associated with the Fisher House if you feel like ever donating to a really great military cause) incredible results for our Special Operators in the military. My son was deployed to east Africa April 2015 for 7 months with his Team, prayed every day for his and his guys' safe return. Two years of shore duty as the OpsO NSW BTC, in charge of Navy SEAL training (250 SEAL instructors and approx. 750 candidates report to him. As of June 2018 XO of Team 2, Sept 2020 with family off to next assignment in Stuttgart, Germany on staff at SOCOM Africa, currently rank of Commander (CDR); daughter is an '09 grad of the Naval Academy, a SWO previously assigned to a guided missle destroyer out of Norfolk, VA (she was deployed off Somalia/Yemen for 6 1/2 months chasing pirates during 2010 as the division officer of the deck crew, then the auxiliary officer in charge of an engineering division, everything that moves other than the main propulsion units)...she was also stationed out of Pearl Harbor early 2012 through Sept. 2013 on a guided missle cruiser, flew to Korea to another ship mid-August 2012 to help with planning a special mission op, then back on Oahu enjoying Hawaii to the max. Shore duty in San Diego assigned as a Logistics Officer of the west coast SEAL Teams on Coronado. In early November 2014 she heard about a half-Ironman on Coronado on a Thursday and the following Sunday qualified for the October 2015 Kona International Ironman Championships in the Female Military category. Was 4th female age group swimmer out of the water at 2015 Kona Ironman, finished her 1st full, has done 12+ half and another full in Maryland, and one in FL, currentlyrank of LieutenantCommander(LCDR). Married mid-Dec 2017 to fellow USNA classmate and sailing team member. He was Weapons Officer on a cruiser out of San Diego, that was patrolling off NK. He's now an instructor of Surface and Anti-Submarine Warfare. My daughter working as west coast director of German firm that does special equipment testing for US industry, ; youngest son is Dec. 2010 graduate of CU/Boulder (English and History majors), expert snowboarder, great surfer, and archer, he shot a huge doe in Westchester County (Oct 2, 2013) with a recurve bow and cedar arrow I made up back about 20 years ago, and a monstrous 8-point buck (N...Expand for more